silent thunder

LSHIDMT (laughing so hard I dropped my taco)

vitamin vitality

FOOD

Etymology

work (not universal work... I just work there sometimes)

whirling in spirals

may pole

dao

They sell it so hard... was it really that great?

rene!

I laughed as I typed it... Me... I never Bum fast... my wife is far too hot.

I have really come to appreciate my media fasts. It started as a temporary news and commercial tv/faceook fast, which was so wonderfully beneficial that now six years on, I do not sense a return soon. Though I hope Brian's Bums Fast is a temporary one.

Ha! I always knew you were connected to some of your Inner Mystic.

Thanks for the belly laugh... that was awesome.

I come bearing grins

One source, many rivers. You remind me Taomeow, it's time to reread Fritjoff Capra's The Tao Of Physics.

The present moment. Much in comon with Tao it seems to me. Unmeasurable and ungraspable. As soon as I measure it, it has passed. Yet it is never used up, always now endures. Eternal, untouchable and unwithering. And indivisible. All occurences are now, all memories are recalled now and all future ruminations happen now. My mind and memory create a sense of time through my comparison of the flow of changes I observe. Yet this is dependent on my own personal perception, which is subjective, filtered and projective. I know I cannot trust my perception of time based solely on my tools of perception. If this were the case, then we would all likely still be espousing the truths that the Earth is flat, does not spin or move in any way and that the sun and celestial bodies swirl around us. There are times to touch truth we must reach beyond what is obvious to our senses and to our short term, logical easy assessment thinking. It's tough for sure. My logical perceptual mind cannot and likely will not reconcile all time as one. And that is fine. It does not neted to, in order to be and do what it has adapted to become. Yet there is for me a palpable, unshakable sense, a knowing in my bones, that there is no meaningful marker, no possible distinguishable separator from one moment and the next. The present is one great flow, of which my perception is a tiny a2are portion thereof. This has been made very palpable just now as I have spent the last 90 hours in a dark windowless room. Puncuated by faces and hands, needles and words exchanged, all merging in my memory as one long flowing soup of healing, pain and change. Celestial change seems real, but not time in the human sense. Tuesday morning @10 am is a purely illusory and made up mental concept with no basis for any actual reality. So I side with Einstein. Or rather the knowing in my bones does, in spite of the railing fist my logical mind lifts and shakes at him in consternation.

How her voice pierced my heart! May her spirit fly as free and powerfully as her voice which will resonate on in her recordings. Om

One night, in the liver hour, I woke with white hot panic crawling up the back of my neck. It was accompanied by a deluge of horrific anxiety driven fear thoughts. As this continued to crescendo into un sustainable levels, a short mantra began in my mind. I simply allowed this sponataneous mantra to over shout to thoughts until only peace remained. I have no formal mantra practice, but I will silently sing these personal from time to time, with beautiful effect. Physics explains that everything is vibration. While I never chant this mantra aloud. I have found ohming and neutral, deep humming to have profounf resonant qualities in both body and non bodily awareness.

Awesome story! I bet she still remembers you. Though I thought The Root of Chinese Qi Gong was written by Dr Yang Jwing-Ming? Edit to fix giant thumbs typing bad letters on very wee letters.

How I long for that intensity again! What gems Masters Wang and Richard are...

That was my first thought as well Andrei... looks strikingly similar to many of the totems of the Pacific Northwest Tribes.

how... predictable.

Well said, that goes along with that other gem of behavioral patterns... willful, forced ignorance